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Ms. Rowden draws upon 25 years of expertise as a legal and investment executive in the real estate industry to lead Jonathan Rose Companies’ Investment Practice. She has responsibility for all aspects of the Rose Smart Growth Investment Fund I L.P., including oversight of acquisitions, financing, asset management and investor relations. Her current projects include the preservation and greening of 107-145 West 135th Street,198 units of Section 8 Housing in Harlem, and the renovation and greening of 45-55 Church Street, an office building with ground floor retail near Yale University, financed with New Market Tax Credits. The multi-million dollar capital improvement program at West 135th Street will be accomplished with the tenants in place and will be one of the first recipients of Federal stimulus money to green affordable housing. 45-55 Church will be the first LEED EB Gold level property in New Haven, Connecticut.
The Investment Practice recently obtained LEED EB Gold certification for the Vance Building in Seattle, Washington. The Fund and its principals regard the building, coined “ground zero” of the green movement in Seattle, as their flagship property. The building has been designated as a national model of green, historic preservation by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Other Fund assets include Tapestry, a mixed income multi-family project being built to LEED Silver and Enterprise Green Community Criteria standards in East Harlem, and the historic Clipper Mill mixed-use complex in Baltimore, Maryland. An adaptive re-use of mill buildings, Clipper Mill won a 2008 ULI Award for Excellence.
Prior to joining Jonathan Rose Companies, Ms. Rowden served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of The Rockefeller Group. In that role, she advised the CEO and Board of Directors on all matters relating to the operating subsidiaries that developed and owned real estate and made investments on behalf of pensions and institutional investors.
Ms. Rowden was a Member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Cushman &Wakefield. She is currently on the Board of Maimonides Medical Center and Safe Space NYC, a non-profit social services agency. She has received numerous awards including the United Way’s first Women United in Philanthropy award.
Ms. Rowden is a member of the Urban Land Institute and the Pension Real Estate Association. She has been a featured speaker on investment in greening existing buildings at various national conferences and in numerous financial and real estate publications. She holds an undergraduate degree from Brown University and law degrees from the University of Michigan and New York University. |
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